Americana News

The Tuning Fork is an oddly-named roots music venue in downtown Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. It is a pretty unassuming bar which...

Molly Tuttle is fast emerging as one of the greatest guitar pickers of her generation – cemented by the huge popularity of her first...

It may have taken 50-odd years, but perhaps the greatest interpreters of roots music have finally put their innovative skills to the...

Archival live recordings released as albums are, to use an old expression, two-a-penny - especially in these days of streamed music...

Lyle Lovett has produced his first new music in 10 years with the release of 12th of June – a genre-fusion of country, jazz, blues and...

If there was ever a best mix ‘n match in Americana music, it would have to be Austin City Limits and singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen....

One of the most distinctive pair in roots music has reunited after more than half a century, to produce a new album featuring the work of...

Lucinda Williams is on the road again. This fact may not be headline-grabbing given that musicians all around the world are back touring...

The death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins while on tour in South Americana is a sad reminder that musicians are back on the road...

The recent feud between big-name artists and streaming services epitomizes the sheer complexities of the music industry in an era when...

In an era when music news seems dominated by superstars either squabbling with streaming services or preoccupied with multi-million...

There’s a common refrain in the studios of Nashville which says: “Emmylou Harris can make a good song great.” But when she scored a...

If ever there was a moment in 2021 which personified Americana’s desire to embrace all musical genres, it came at the Americana Music...

When it comes to partnerships in the music industry, there are few as enduring – and indeed endearing – as the one between Emmylou Harris...

In 2007 a sixties rock icon teamed up with a young fiddle-playing bluegrass star to form one of the most unlikely combinations in modern...

It seems that hardly a month goes by without another release of a live album from the Jerry Garcia Band. Nothing wrong with that, given...

Many of the great Texas troubadours – Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, Billy Joe Shaver – are sadly gone. But thankfully many...

Fifty-years ago this month, a young Chicago postman, turned-singer-songwriter, released a self-titled album called John Prine. It would...

Sturgill Simpson, one of Americana Music’s hottest acts, has shocked the industry with a sudden Instagram announcement that he has...

The legacy left behind by recently-departed artists across all genres dominated the 20th Americana Music Association’s annual Honours and...